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HALSMAN: All my life I was more interested in the functioning of the human psyche than in the functioning of machines. Watching the ever changing expressions of a face, I could often read the thoughts and emotions of my interlocutor. Thus, immediately the face became the main subject of my...
As a former designer and illustrator, Cosindas knows how color moves. The still lifes on show, assemblages of dools, flowers, cloth, objects belie their name. A series like "Asparagus" makes evident the potency of what seems a simple green stalk, and the fertility of Cosidas' imagination.
Archaeology of Newness. To understand Delaunay's modernity one has to realize how old-fashioned the subject matter of cubism was. Picasso or Braque's still lifes, with their tilted cafe tables, guitars, fruit and playing cards, were scarcely different as subjects from those of Caravaggio or Chardin...
As a wall of water hurtled down the canyon, a wailing and moaning wind preceded it along the Big Thompson. When the water began to rise, Helen Hill, who is in her mid-fifties, scrambled to a perch five limbs up on a ponderosa pine and later that night watched...
Approving Bottoms. Between the wars-World I and II-Travers turned out a series of farces sketching a Wode-housean gallery of silly asses of the English upper class, alas unrelieved by a Jeeves. "They were quite good, but just things for laughter," Travers recalls. By the '50s, this...